Portworx Autopilot is a rule-based automation engine designed to manage storage operations within a Portworx cluster without manual intervention. Its primary function is to monitor the state of storage resources, such as Persistent Volume Claims (PVCs), and automatically trigger predefined actions when specific conditions are met. A common use case is to define a rule that monitors a volume's usage percentage and automatically expands the volume's size once it crosses a specified threshold, ensuring applications do not run out of space.

A. Migration of containers and applications across clusters is a disaster recovery or application mobility function, which is primarily handled by Portworx DR (PX-DR) and Stork.

B. Enhanced security features, such as role-based access control (RBAC) and volume encryption, are managed by the Portworx Security component, not Autopilot.

1. Portworx Enterprise Documentation

"Autopilot Overview": "Portworx Autopilot is a rule-based engine that allows you to programmatically and automatically manage your Portworx cluster. Autopilot allows you to specify conditions and actions to automate common maintenance operations

such as volume expansion or pool rebalancing."

Source: Portworx Official Documentation

Operate and Maintain -> Autopilot -> Overview.

2. Portworx Enterprise Documentation

"Automatically resize a PVC": This section provides a specific example of an AutopilotRule object. The rule's conditions are set to pvc.usagepercentage > 60

and the actions are configured to perform a px.volume.resize to increase the volume size by 50%. This directly demonstrates the automated expansion of volumes based on rules.

Source: Portworx Official Documentation

Operate and Maintain -> Autopilot -> Use-cases -> Automatically resize a PVC.

3. Portworx Enterprise Documentation

"Portworx DR": "Portworx DR allows you to migrate applications and their data between clusters over a wide-area network (WAN)." This clearly distinguishes the function of disaster recovery from Autopilot's role.

Source: Portworx Official Documentation

Backup and Recovery -> Portworx DR.